in general, here you are making the same mistakes as EU types who refuse to understand that the bible was written in SPECIFIC HISTORICAL CONTEXTS. like you, they tend to assume that everything in the bible was really, mostly, written for people today - hence they think it's wrong to be gay, because otherwise surely god would've put something in there for us to know.
can you stop putting words into my mouth? you are completely misrepresenting what i believe about god. i do not think that god works outside of history. god does not zip down and tell us some crazy shit that doesn't even make sense to us, but will make sense to people over 2000 years in the future. she doesn't do that now, and she didn't do it then.
i know you're joking about jesus as a liberal voter, but the fundamental problem there is the same one you are making in this whole comment - that somehow jesus' words and life (or any part of the bible) can be extracted and put in today's context and judged by today's standards.
that's exactly what i'd expect from an EU person, but not an educated, critically-thinking historian.
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Date: 2008-03-14 04:18 am (UTC)can you stop putting words into my mouth? you are completely misrepresenting what i believe about god. i do not think that god works outside of history. god does not zip down and tell us some crazy shit that doesn't even make sense to us, but will make sense to people over 2000 years in the future. she doesn't do that now, and she didn't do it then.
i know you're joking about jesus as a liberal voter, but the fundamental problem there is the same one you are making in this whole comment - that somehow jesus' words and life (or any part of the bible) can be extracted and put in today's context and judged by today's standards.
that's exactly what i'd expect from an EU person, but not an educated, critically-thinking historian.